Microsoft today announced the availability of R Server 9.0 on MSDN and Visual Studio Dev Essentials. This new release is built on top of the latest open source R engine, and comes with several new capabilities. In MRS 9.0, you can combine the algorithms delivered in this package with pre-existing parallel external memory algorithms such as the RevoScaleR package as well as open source tech like CRAN R packages to deliver the best predictive analytics.
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